Fighting spirit

So it's not just us, then. On the same night that Lee Bowyer was busy condemning Fat Sam and his old club West Ham to defeat with an 89th-minute goal, Kettering strikers Moses Ashikodi and Jean-Paul Marna paid tribute to the Londoner's infamous St James' Park scrap with the Little Waster by coming to blows on the pitch before both receiving straight red cards. Their manager, ex-Mag Mark Stimson, would have been pulling his hair out - if he had any left.

In other old boy news, Nobby Solano is currently in sparkling form for Mick Wadsworth's Monkey-Hangers. He followed up a dazzling run and goal in the 3-0 defeat of Bury with a peach of a curling free-kick last weekend, which rolled back the years and provided the platform for a hard-fought victory at Bournemouth. A third spell at St James' is presumably out of the question...